Dominic St-Pierre
@dominicstpierre.com
I create software systems, usually in Go. Interested in SaaS / self-funded calm company. Founder at onparle.ca
Courses: dominicstpierre.com
Podcast: gopodcast.dev
btw, I'm blind and use a screen reader.
Courses: dominicstpierre.com
Podcast: gopodcast.dev
btw, I'm blind and use a screen reader.
You know what's really fun?
Removing the LLM noise from a codebase you truly care about. This is one of the most energizing and fun programming activity I had in months.
I'm building a SaaS I want to maintained and grow for the next ddecades, this "tool" will not help me reach my goals
Removing the LLM noise from a codebase you truly care about. This is one of the most energizing and fun programming activity I had in months.
I'm building a SaaS I want to maintained and grow for the next ddecades, this "tool" will not help me reach my goals
September 25, 2026 at 11:17 AM
You know what's really fun?
Removing the LLM noise from a codebase you truly care about. This is one of the most energizing and fun programming activity I had in months.
I'm building a SaaS I want to maintained and grow for the next ddecades, this "tool" will not help me reach my goals
Removing the LLM noise from a codebase you truly care about. This is one of the most energizing and fun programming activity I had in months.
I'm building a SaaS I want to maintained and grow for the next ddecades, this "tool" will not help me reach my goals
I kind of hit a first plateau with the SaaS. We took a small 1 week vacation in august and things never restarted after like it was prior. It's always rough for me these periods and I usually go all over the places instead of trying to keep calm, it's always easy to say / advice, but hard to do
September 18, 2026 at 11:11 AM
I kind of hit a first plateau with the SaaS. We took a small 1 week vacation in august and things never restarted after like it was prior. It's always rough for me these periods and I usually go all over the places instead of trying to keep calm, it's always easy to say / advice, but hard to do
Of course titles means nothing. I've had 2 titles in my career, programmer and entrepreneur.
At least entrepreneur still means something these days, programmer, well not so much unfortunately.
At least entrepreneur still means something these days, programmer, well not so much unfortunately.
Officially a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix 🎉
…the same title I had 5 years ago at Gatsby.
So friendly reminder that titles are made up and inconsistent!
…the same title I had 5 years ago at Gatsby.
So friendly reminder that titles are made up and inconsistent!
September 8, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Of course titles means nothing. I've had 2 titles in my career, programmer and entrepreneur.
At least entrepreneur still means something these days, programmer, well not so much unfortunately.
At least entrepreneur still means something these days, programmer, well not so much unfortunately.
🎙️go podcast() ep. 93 is live, Thorsten Ball joins us and we talk about LLM / ai in our software engineering life, we do not always have the same opinions and that's fine, was fun to receive Thorsten, I hope you enjoy. gopodcast.dev/episodes/093...
go podcast() | 093: Agentic engineering is here to stay with Thorsten Ball
Hey Thorsten Ball joins us this week and we talk about Amp, agentic engineering, some ~philosophical debates, you know the usual stuff when software engineers talk about AI and LLM and how it's cha...
gopodcast.dev
July 16, 2026 at 10:49 AM
🎙️go podcast() ep. 93 is live, Thorsten Ball joins us and we talk about LLM / ai in our software engineering life, we do not always have the same opinions and that's fine, was fun to receive Thorsten, I hope you enjoy. gopodcast.dev/episodes/093...
🎙️go podcast ep 92 is out. Lea Anthony talks about the Wails v3, we go over what's new, and dive a bit deeper on how the frontend communicate with Go aka wails://, and spoiled by the title, but Lea dropped that bomb at the end of the episode ;) apps on mobile. gopodcast.dev/episodes/092...
go podcast() | 092: Your Wails app... on mobile? With Lea Anthony
Hey Lea returns to the pod to talk about the soon to release v3 of Wails. We go over what's new, Wails is handling multiple windows, has a HTTP protocol now instead of using the v2 / send message w...
gopodcast.dev
July 9, 2026 at 11:12 AM
🎙️go podcast ep 92 is out. Lea Anthony talks about the Wails v3, we go over what's new, and dive a bit deeper on how the frontend communicate with Go aka wails://, and spoiled by the title, but Lea dropped that bomb at the end of the episode ;) apps on mobile. gopodcast.dev/episodes/092...
gmail is not fun to use with a screen reader. I tried Thunderbird after almost 20 years using a web interface for email.
Let's just say, I'm cleaning a lot of crap that I was just leaving there in the web app, not sure why, but it's unsub time. It feel like I'm more engage with my inbox now.
Let's just say, I'm cleaning a lot of crap that I was just leaving there in the web app, not sure why, but it's unsub time. It feel like I'm more engage with my inbox now.
July 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
gmail is not fun to use with a screen reader. I tried Thunderbird after almost 20 years using a web interface for email.
Let's just say, I'm cleaning a lot of crap that I was just leaving there in the web app, not sure why, but it's unsub time. It feel like I'm more engage with my inbox now.
Let's just say, I'm cleaning a lot of crap that I was just leaving there in the web app, not sure why, but it's unsub time. It feel like I'm more engage with my inbox now.
Reposted by Dominic St-Pierre
babe is everything okay? you've barely touched your five mutually exclusive boolean props that should have been a single enum.
June 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM
babe is everything okay? you've barely touched your five mutually exclusive boolean props that should have been a single enum.
🎙️go podcast() ep. 88 is out (video edition). This week it's about git worktree, datastar, importance of onboarding flow and what it means to our respective products. youtu.be/Fbg73vWCEss
088: Just listen to Dom
YouTube video by Dominic St-Pierre
youtu.be
June 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM
🎙️go podcast() ep. 88 is out (video edition). This week it's about git worktree, datastar, importance of onboarding flow and what it means to our respective products. youtu.be/Fbg73vWCEss
ha the good old "just use PostgreSQL" advice was always reliable and will always be reliable for me to give, excerpt from last go podcast() episode. youtu.be/LaAsvI1dG7k
May 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
ha the good old "just use PostgreSQL" advice was always reliable and will always be reliable for me to give, excerpt from last go podcast() episode. youtu.be/LaAsvI1dG7k
📹go podcast() ep. 87 is out, we're having video now as well. Morten took the advice of "just use Postgres" and I'm preparing for a first real-world usage of my SaaS.
YT: youtu.be/LaAsvI1dG7k
Pod: gopodcast.dev/episodes/087...
YT: youtu.be/LaAsvI1dG7k
Pod: gopodcast.dev/episodes/087...
087: func AudioToVideo(input Podcast) (Podcast, error)
YouTube video by Dominic St-Pierre
youtu.be
May 28, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📹go podcast() ep. 87 is out, we're having video now as well. Morten took the advice of "just use Postgres" and I'm preparing for a first real-world usage of my SaaS.
YT: youtu.be/LaAsvI1dG7k
Pod: gopodcast.dev/episodes/087...
YT: youtu.be/LaAsvI1dG7k
Pod: gopodcast.dev/episodes/087...
ok, 0 to 1 is done in the sense that I've a first paying customer, someone booked a demo for tomorrow, and there's ~2 lead in the pipeline, it's so little but at the same time gigantesque. Did I freaking finally built something people want. Next step is 10 paying customers, which feels like ⛰️
May 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM
ok, 0 to 1 is done in the sense that I've a first paying customer, someone booked a demo for tomorrow, and there's ~2 lead in the pipeline, it's so little but at the same time gigantesque. Did I freaking finally built something people want. Next step is 10 paying customers, which feels like ⛰️
🎙️go podcast() ep. 86 is out. Morten is debating about using ClickHouse for telemetry data, and I try to plant the seed of, use PostgreSQL for now. From my side, I released v1.7.0 of StaticBackend, the first real release since I un-archived the project. gopodcast.dev/episodes/086...
go podcast() | 086: Just use postgres, man
It's one of these week where we just talk about challenges we're facing with our respective product. Morten wants to use ClickHouse, with subtility Dominic try to say that maybe Postgres might be j...
gopodcast.dev
May 21, 2026 at 11:16 AM
🎙️go podcast() ep. 86 is out. Morten is debating about using ClickHouse for telemetry data, and I try to plant the seed of, use PostgreSQL for now. From my side, I released v1.7.0 of StaticBackend, the first real release since I un-archived the project. gopodcast.dev/episodes/086...
in my last r/golang post, a reply I got:
> Wow, how did you manage to write so much code while being blind?
People with disability are able to do as much as enable people, IF they're in an environment they can be productive in. Think about this when you gave your next interview.
> Wow, how did you manage to write so much code while being blind?
People with disability are able to do as much as enable people, IF they're in an environment they can be productive in. Think about this when you gave your next interview.
May 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
in my last r/golang post, a reply I got:
> Wow, how did you manage to write so much code while being blind?
People with disability are able to do as much as enable people, IF they're in an environment they can be productive in. Think about this when you gave your next interview.
> Wow, how did you manage to write so much code while being blind?
People with disability are able to do as much as enable people, IF they're in an environment they can be productive in. Think about this when you gave your next interview.
day-to-day as blind software engineers - I once tried to get my profile in a website that help diversity in tech that helps open companies connect with talent, turns out I never was listed. Well guess what, finding job being disable if very hard as well, even if I'm white. Food for thoughts
May 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
day-to-day as blind software engineers - I once tried to get my profile in a website that help diversity in tech that helps open companies connect with talent, turns out I never was listed. Well guess what, finding job being disable if very hard as well, even if I'm white. Food for thoughts
StaticBackend v1.7, a Go mature backend API that allow to test product idea very quickly with everything typical web applications need. Yes it's similar to Supabase, we launched at exactly the same time and I became aware of them via a tweet when they got their 1st $30m. github.com/staticbacken...
Release Release v1.7.0 · staticbackendhq/core
StaticBackend v1.7.0
This release continues the restart work from v1.6.3, with most of the effort going into account/user administration, server-side function capabilities, query improvements, and ...
github.com
May 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
StaticBackend v1.7, a Go mature backend API that allow to test product idea very quickly with everything typical web applications need. Yes it's similar to Supabase, we launched at exactly the same time and I became aware of them via a tweet when they got their 1st $30m. github.com/staticbacken...
🎙️go podcast() ep. 85 is out. Am I the only one hearing Morten like he's talking via a phone? haha, nonetheless a traditional episode where we talk about our Go based product we're trying to sustain ourselve from. With the typical tangents and what not. gopodcast.dev/episodes/085...
go podcast() | 085: Morten received an ~acquisition offer, Dominic got his 1st paying customer
It's sounds way bigger than what it is, for both of us frankly. But hey, we're using Go to try and generate a living out of our respective products and there's no small achievements. We talk about ...
gopodcast.dev
May 14, 2026 at 12:32 PM
🎙️go podcast() ep. 85 is out. Am I the only one hearing Morten like he's talking via a phone? haha, nonetheless a traditional episode where we talk about our Go based product we're trying to sustain ourselve from. With the typical tangents and what not. gopodcast.dev/episodes/085...
One of the few advice that everyone is regurgitating for almost 20y in SaaS world that I believe in is use the boring stuff to build and don't jump in the unknown.
Especially true with LLM these days. I love Gleam, a lot. But Go just allowed me to finally build a SaaS smbs want to pay for.
Especially true with LLM these days. I love Gleam, a lot. But Go just allowed me to finally build a SaaS smbs want to pay for.
May 13, 2026 at 10:54 AM
One of the few advice that everyone is regurgitating for almost 20y in SaaS world that I believe in is use the boring stuff to build and don't jump in the unknown.
Especially true with LLM these days. I love Gleam, a lot. But Go just allowed me to finally build a SaaS smbs want to pay for.
Especially true with LLM these days. I love Gleam, a lot. But Go just allowed me to finally build a SaaS smbs want to pay for.
🎙️go podcast() ep. 81 is out. Morten closed the call, not sure if it was a msg to tell me to STFU lol I was deblatering about a Redis issue I have in prod, we moved to text editor tangent, neovim, text editor as blind / screen reader user. gopodcast.dev/episodes/081...
go podcast() | 081: Weird Redis bug and we talk text editors
I talk about a weird issue I'm having all of a sudden with Redis. VPS hosting in general, the famous 5 years mark for a server. Morten is using neovim, which I find very interesting, so we took an ...
gopodcast.dev
April 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
🎙️go podcast() ep. 81 is out. Morten closed the call, not sure if it was a msg to tell me to STFU lol I was deblatering about a Redis issue I have in prod, we moved to text editor tangent, neovim, text editor as blind / screen reader user. gopodcast.dev/episodes/081...
programming languages are the new frontend frameworks now - one is created / launched each week it seems.
The future will be noisy.
The future will be noisy.
April 15, 2026 at 9:54 AM
programming languages are the new frontend frameworks now - one is created / launched each week it seems.
The future will be noisy.
The future will be noisy.
one thing I like about the ? in syntax like Rust is that my screen reader ask a question about a line, looking at Lisette language at the moment:
let data = io.ReadAll(file)?
Which naturally increase the intonation, really cool on top of not having if err != nil { return x, err }
let data = io.ReadAll(file)?
Which naturally increase the intonation, really cool on top of not having if err != nil { return x, err }
April 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
one thing I like about the ? in syntax like Rust is that my screen reader ask a question about a line, looking at Lisette language at the moment:
let data = io.ReadAll(file)?
Which naturally increase the intonation, really cool on top of not having if err != nil { return x, err }
let data = io.ReadAll(file)?
Which naturally increase the intonation, really cool on top of not having if err != nil { return x, err }
🎙️go podcast() ep. 79 is out, Morten talks about trying WireGuard for his project and we talk about the danger of taking social engagement for product validation, the trap and how it feels like progress but might not convert to paying customers, like ever. gopodcast.dev/episodes/079...
go podcast() | 079: WireGuard and don't mix social engagement w/ product validation
This week we talk about what's new with what we're working on. And as always we cover / comment what we've found intreesting or disturbing in the last week or so.
gopodcast.dev
April 2, 2026 at 11:23 AM
🎙️go podcast() ep. 79 is out, Morten talks about trying WireGuard for his project and we talk about the danger of taking social engagement for product validation, the trap and how it feels like progress but might not convert to paying customers, like ever. gopodcast.dev/episodes/079...
🎙️go podcast ep. 78 is out, we received Pasha Sviderski, the creator of Uncloud a tool that bridge the gap between Docker and K8, it's helping with infra / deployment on self-hosted servers and of course, built with Go. gopodcast.dev/episodes/078...
go podcast() | 078: Uncloud, bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes
We talk to the author of Uncloud, a tool that helps with self-hosting and managing your own infrastructure / make it easy to deploy your services to your servers. Links:Uncloud on GitHub
gopodcast.dev
March 26, 2026 at 9:15 AM
🎙️go podcast ep. 78 is out, we received Pasha Sviderski, the creator of Uncloud a tool that bridge the gap between Docker and K8, it's helping with infra / deployment on self-hosted servers and of course, built with Go. gopodcast.dev/episodes/078...
you know what, calm company just took a new definition for me, in addition to not grow at all cost, my definition expanded to not use LLM at all cost, the less of the better.
Sorry if your new fav metrics is outputing 10k LoC per day or if your PM is able to generate code now. it's terrible code...
Sorry if your new fav metrics is outputing 10k LoC per day or if your PM is able to generate code now. it's terrible code...
March 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
you know what, calm company just took a new definition for me, in addition to not grow at all cost, my definition expanded to not use LLM at all cost, the less of the better.
Sorry if your new fav metrics is outputing 10k LoC per day or if your PM is able to generate code now. it's terrible code...
Sorry if your new fav metrics is outputing 10k LoC per day or if your PM is able to generate code now. it's terrible code...
🎙️go podcast() ep. 75 is out. @andydotxyz.bsky.social joins us and we talk about Fyne, a new visual designer allowing you to build your UI more easily and a service Andy is bootstraping to help teams with building Fyne apps more easily. gopodcast.dev/episodes/075...
go podcast() | 075: Fyne apps are easier to design and build with Andy Williams
Andy, the creator of the Fyne toolkit returns and talk about a new visual designer for Fyne apps and a service to make building to all platform very easy. We talk about the state of Fyne, AppTrix A...
gopodcast.dev
March 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
🎙️go podcast() ep. 75 is out. @andydotxyz.bsky.social joins us and we talk about Fyne, a new visual designer allowing you to build your UI more easily and a service Andy is bootstraping to help teams with building Fyne apps more easily. gopodcast.dev/episodes/075...